Julien Semaan
Head Of Kubernetes Engineering at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJulien Semaan is a cloud-native architect and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling Kubernetes-based platforms and developer experiences. Currently Head of Kubernetes Engineering at Kubex and Tech Lead for the CNCF Developer Experience TAG, he previously led the design and delivery of an internal GitOps PaaS at Akamai to accelerate product launches while standardizing RBAC, observability, and compliance. Julien combines hands-on systems engineering—writing high-availability Go operators and integrating service mesh—with people leadership, growing teams rapidly and onboarding non-cloud-native engineers into productive contributors. He also founded Anyfile Notepad, a lightweight online editor integrated with Google Drive and Dropbox, reflecting a long-standing interest in user-facing tooling alongside deep infrastructure work. Based in Montreal, he is particularly skilled at turning complex architectural requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Computer Programming, DEC Computer Programming at Cegep du vieux montreal
French, English, Arabic
Github Skills (178)
dashboard10
statsd10
postgresql10
grafana10
captive10
security10
wake-on-lan10
isolation10
influxdb10
google-workspace10
monitoring10
5g10
graphite10
linux10
wireless10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
julsemaan/ace
Feb 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches, 2 tags in 3 years 6 months
anyfile-notepad/anyfile-notepad.github.io
Sep 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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